Summer Festival: Indigo Collective - Patricia Yates & Graziana Presicce
- Date
- Tuesday 5 July 2022, 1:05pm - 1:55pm
- Admission
- Free
- Door
- open from 12:30pm
Patricia Yates (tenor) Graziana Presicce (piano)
Indigo Collective, comprised of Patricia Yates and Graziana Presicce, is a piano-vocal duo, committed to bringing vibrant, diverse programmes to their audiences. Their creative approach aims to break free from canonic restrictions, shedding light on lesser-known works and forging new musical collaborations.
Indigo Collective will present works by living composers, a selection of French song, a snapshot of the many vocal works of Florence Price, and complete song collections by 20th century British women.
Graduate Profile
Patricia Yates
BMus Performance, graduated 2021
Patricia Yates is a classical tenor, vocal teacher and piano repetiteur from Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK. She graduated from the University of Leeds with a First Class Bachelor of Music in 2021 studying with Austin Gunn. During her studies, Patricia completed an Erasmus Exchange Year at ArtEZ Conservatorium in Zwolle, The Netherlands, where she studied with Marjan Kuiper. Upon graduation, Patricia was awarded the Lord Snowdon Prize for most notable and consistent achievement during programme of study. She will continue her studies in September 2022 at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music in Montréal, Québec, for a Master of Music in Opera and Voice.
Patricia’s operatic roles include: for Leeds Youth Opera, King of the East/The Moon The Enchanted Pig, Tamina The Magic Flute, Alfred Die Fledermaus, Macduff Macbeth and Marcello La Bohème; for Rocket Opera, Dermot The Poor Soldier; for Leeds Baroque, Joabel David et Jonathas; for Ilkley and Otley Choral Societies Aeneas/First Sailor Dido and Aeneas; for the Tête à Tête Opera Festival, Li Biao The Monk of the River; for Dutch National Opera’s Opera Forward Festival, Patient 3396 IDIOSYNCRATIC; for the University of Leeds, Nanki-Poo The Mikado; and for Buxton G&S Festival, Richard Dauntless Ruddigore and Frederick The Pirates of Penzance. She has also performed in the ensemble of companies Random Opera, Opera North and Nederlandse Reisopera. Patricia has sung in projects with Dutch choirs Consensus Vocalis and the Gelders Bach Collegium, and in the UK, with Borealis Choir.
Oratorio experience includes Schütz Musikalische Exequien, Handel Messiah, Handel Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Draghi From Harmony, Mozart Mass in C minor, Mozart Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Mozart Requiem, Haydn Paukenmesse, Haydn Harmoniemesse, Franck Messe in A, Dvořák Stabat Mater, Stainer The Crucifixion, Jenkins The Armed Man and Wilby An English Passion.
Patricia has given several solo recitals with pianists Martin Pickard and Daniel Gordon. Programmes have included Italian bel canto song, Beethoven’s An Die Ferne Geliebte, a women’s song programme of Beach, Price, Hensel-Mendelssohn and Woodforde-Finden, and Britten’s Winter Words. Her particular interest in the latter extended to her undergraduate dissertation, “A textual and contextual study of Benjamin Britten’s ‘Lyrics and Ballads of Thomas Hardy’”.